[Info-vax] newVMS, was: Re: [OT] Abbreviations, was: Re: Desperately Seeking OpenVMS ecosystem

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-12-08, Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer) <gerard.calliet at pia-sofer.fr> wrote:
> What about existing systems in industry and other places which actually 
> use VMS ?
>

Then over the next few years, they have some decisions to make.

> Do you think I'm not aware of that the real time has changed ? Or that 
> VMS has never been able of addressing all the problems ? Do you think I 
> don't know about lesser and lesser competences at HP ?
>

Given some comments in c.o.v recently, I think those are reasonable
things for me to have pointed out.

> I only try to do my job. There are lot of existing VMS system doing 
> importants things. For them a port represents real risks. Keep it in 
> mind, Simon.

Yes, and if you move them to some new modernised newVMS, they will also
see similar risks. It's the same reason why some sites didn't want to
disrupt their operations by moving some of their VAX systems to Alpha.

However, those sites don't provide enough income to continue with VMS
in it's current form else HP would not carrying it's current actions,
and most new potential VMS users will want a operating system with
comparable capabilities to current operating systems as a minimum.

That's just the required baseline even before you come up with something
to make them consider your nice modern newVMS platform. If you don't
have a unique selling point to make potential new users interested, then
they are not going to try out newVMS and will stick with proven solutions.

So let's bottom line this: what unique selling point will you offer on
a newVMS platform which will make existing users of other platforms
even look at newVMS ?

You need to be able to answer that question before you waste time talking
about all the other things.

Simon.

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